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Definition of ort in English: ortnoun ɔːtôrt usually ortsdialect, archaic A scrap or remainder of food from a meal. Example sentencesExamples - The men's job was to operate the sweepers, brushing up the vegetable waste, the paper bags, the scraps and orts of the Market like prairie harvesters.
- A waiter wheeled up a trolley of elaborately bedized scraps, orts and broken meats.
Synonyms debris, waste, waste matter, discarded matter, refuse, rubbish, litter, scrap, flotsam and jetsam, lumber, rubble, wreckage
Origin Late Middle English: from Middle Low German orte 'food remains', originally a compound of which the second element is related to eat. Definition of ort in US English: ortnounôrt usually ortsdialect, archaic A scrap or remainder of food from a meal. Example sentencesExamples - A waiter wheeled up a trolley of elaborately bedized scraps, orts and broken meats.
- The men's job was to operate the sweepers, brushing up the vegetable waste, the paper bags, the scraps and orts of the Market like prairie harvesters.
Synonyms debris, waste, waste matter, discarded matter, refuse, rubbish, litter, scrap, flotsam and jetsam, lumber, rubble, wreckage
Origin Late Middle English: from Middle Low German orte ‘food remains’, originally a compound of which the second element is related to eat. |